Research: spirituality and psychedelic use

PsyPost, 2/27/24; Bill Shapiro, Esquire; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

New research explores the relationship between spiritual well-being and psychedelic use.

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  Meditate or medicate? Let go or find plants?

  We just had this discussion over the weekend, as we traipsed through the woods on a mushroom hunt, discussing the entheogenic, psychedelic, shamanic, psychological, and medicinal use of mind-expanding substances like magic mushrooms and plant medicines, DMT and spiritual practices such as Eight Limbed Yoga and Buddhist Meditation.
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What it's like to take a psychedelic trip without drugs

Ecstatic breathing, yoga, cold plunge, NDE, sex?

(Esquire) It doesn’t take a third eye (Buddhist dibba cakkhu) to see that Americans, at long last, are primed to turn on, tune in (and possibly drop out).

OK, ready, everyone's doin it

If you’ve heard yourself utter the phrase “plant medicine” when what you mean is “shrooms,” if you’ve found yourself absently Googling “Ayahuasca retreats” the way you used to look for beach getaways, if you’ve got a friend who flew across the country to take a “heroic dose” of magic mushrooms (psilocybin) in the care of a psychedelic shaman and you felt the sharp pinch of jealousy…you are, well, hardly alone. More: What it's like to take a psychedelic trip without drugs

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